You’ve heard of rhyme schemes, the various ways you can arrange sounds to link lines and create sequences of motion. In this article, I want to look at rhythm’s ability to do the same thing: sometimes ...

We’ve been talking about couplets in the last two installments— how rhythm schemes can affect their motion. Rhythm schemes are indeed useful moving past the unrelenting march of couplets, but there ...

Machines to play music have long been accepted, but now there is a machine to compose music—of a sort. Called the Compos-A-Tune, it is a cinch to operate for anyone with elementary knowledge of ...